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Spoiler alert: It's a research program for over 20 years at Northeastern University to understand the impact of steroid abuse in teens.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4720269/

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[–] Contramuffin 83 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Here's a fun game: describe your research/interest in a similar way that Fox/Republicans use to describe research. The more misleading it is from the actual research, the better.

I'll start: watch how tired mice get when they get sick

(determine the mechanism of how microbial contact affects host circadian rhythms)

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago

Even that wasn't quite clickbaity and broken enough.

I studied whether we could operate dump trucks on mars.
(Super hydraulic fluid based rover systems)

My friend made moss in jars for air conditioning.
(Super endothermic moss for cooling, oxygen and protein development in space)

You gave mice the flu and asked them to sleep.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

I study how fast poison leaking into the ground is cleaned up by microbes, and how it's possible to protect drinking water sources from that poison.

I honestly don't know how to phrase that so it sounds ridiculous or useless.

[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds 35 points 1 week ago

You watch trash water drain into dirt

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Researchers spend $X to find out if poison kills microbes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That just sounds like antibiotic research.

[–] Contramuffin 4 points 1 week ago

Researchers spend $X to find out if microbes kill poison

[–] Eranziel 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'll take a stab at it.

"Researchers spend $X to see whether poison leaking into the ground gets into our water."

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Researchers Poison Groundwater!

[–] Contramuffin 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

No, that would implicitly admitthat pollution happens, which would never occur on Fox. Better version might be "see if dirt absorbs poison"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Researchers spend $X trying to poison groundwater, thankfully foiled by bacteria.

[–] Maggoty 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh that's easy. You're the one turning Frogs gay.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Shit, you got me.

[–] atomicorange 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

My company charged the government billions of dollars for a camera that takes hours to take one photo.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

Is Skynet upon us? Communist robots now get to think faster with new brain!

I'm researching heterogeneous cores embedded systems for robotics running open source software. ><

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

My company costs the government billions each year for weapons that haven't been used in nearly 80 years. Talk about inefficiency!

Nukes and nuclear nonproliferation.

Shout-out to republican department of energy head Rick Perry who wanted to get rid of the DOE thinking it was just solar panels and windmills. TEXAS MAN THINK GOVERNMENT ENERGY BAD.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Like all god-fearing men, they are afraid of invisible powers that actually work!

[–] CM400 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You seriously (I’m dead serious) need to pitch this as a game show to Netflix.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

Already recorded and cancelled.

[–] DeltaSMC 3 points 1 week ago

Always nice to see a fellow circadian researcher in the wild. Be curious, be critical, and most of all, bmal!